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After a couple of months of unpaid leave I returned to Arriva for the evening last Wednesday for a contract duty. Park & Ride service from MK Rail Station to Stadium:MK. Unfortunately there were more buses than people with 12 deckers and 526 passengers carried.

The Arriva Bus App was updated a few days ago, Seems to be more accurate than the previous version.

The system works with the ETM (Ticket Machine) doing all the work, Which means that we no longer have to have seperate RTPI equipment onboard the bus. The ticket machine polls in to the Arriva server every 22 seconds telling it where it is in the world and the server cross references this against the published timetable and works out from that if its Early, Late or On time.

You can now select that it shows you the last known position of the bus, Rather than its estimated location… A much better option as you now know that the bus was actually at the place on the map.

All that needs to happen now is to get more ETM’s polling in to the system accurately.

The main City Centre stops by The Point had a bit of a switch around on Sunday with services stopping at different stops in an attempt to stop some of the congestion, Mainly caused by the out of town services unable to pull into the stop outside McDonald’s properly and then blocking the road…

Picture of coach not quite fitting on the old stop at McDonald’s Copyright of MK_Tom on Flickr

The latest MK Council Travel Guide can be downloaded here or picked up from Council Offices, Libraries and the Arrive Mkube office in CMK

Route 1:

Revised route and timetable. Journeys will not serve Granby and will terminate at Newport Pagnell. For replacement services to Olney and Lavendon see services 21 and 321. For replacement service to Granby see service 19

New route operated by Redline, between Central Milton Keynes to Lavendon via Newport Pagnell and Olney. Please note that services will depart Milton Keynes Central Station from stop Y3, and not stop Y5 as displayed in the timetable below and in the updated Milton Keynes Travel Guide.

Route 23:

Revised stops at The Point, Central Milton Keynes

Route 24/25:

Revised route and timetable.

Route 28:

Red Rose now operating this service on Sundays and Public Holidays, in addition to Mondays to Saturdays

Route 30/31:

New operator, Red Rose, minor revisions to timetable

Route 33/33A:

Revised timetable with new terminus in Northampton and revised stops at The Point, Central Milton Keynes

Revised timetable with new terminus in Northampton. Revised stops at The Point, Central Milton Keynes

Route 99:

Revised stops at The Point, Central Milton Keynes

Route 101:

Replaced by route 321.

Route 150:

Revised timetable

Route 197:

Revised timetable. Please note that service 197 also operates a return journey from Biggleswade to Central Milton Keynes on Saturdays. Services on Saturdays depart from Biggleswade at 0912 and from Central Milton Keynes (The Point, stop H3) at 1400, and do not serve Toddington, Henlow or Langford.